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No. 775.466. PATENTED NOV. 22, i904.

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No. 775,466. PATENTED NOV. 22, 1904.

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ARTICLE OF FURNITURE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 4. 1902.

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UNTTE STATES Patented November 22, 1904.

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GEORGE W BENT, OF HYDEPARK, MASSACHUSETTS.

ARTICLE OF FURNITURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 775,466, dated. November 22, 1904.

Application filed February 4:, 1902. Serial No. 92,601. N0 model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. BENT, a citizen of the United States, residing in Hydepark, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Articles of Furniture, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to an article of furniture of that class in which a main section has cooperating with it an auxiliary section which is movable laterally with relation to said main section.

The invention is herein shown as embodied in an extensible bed or couch, and has'for its object to provide means whereby the auxiliary section may be moved with relation to the main section with a minimum expenditure of power and from one end of the bed or couch.

The invention further consists in novel features of construction of the bed or couch, as will be described. These and other features of this invention will be pointed out in the claims at the end of this specification.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a couch or bed embodying this invention with the auxiliary section in its operative or extended position, the wire mattress being broken out to more clearly show the construction of the operative parts; Fig. 2, a plan view of the bed shown in Fig. 1 with the auxiliary section in the position it occupies when not in use; Fig. 3, a rear side elevation of the bed with the parts assembled as shown in Fig. 2; Fig. 4, an end view of the bed shown in Fig. 1, looking toward the right; Fig. 5, a perspective view of the bed or couch in its extended position with the wire mattress broken out, and Figs. 6 and 7 details to be referred to.

The bed herein shown as embodying this invention comprises a main section a and an auxiliary section I), movable with relation thereto. The main section a may and preferably will be made of metal and comprises the head and foot frames 0 d, each of which is shown as composed of a U-shaped metal tube, the straight portions of which form the legs cf, which are united by a cross-bar g of angle-iron, to the horizontal portion h of which the wire mattress i is secured by suitable springs 7', as represented in Fig. 1. The end frames 0 (Z are connected to each other by the side bars in Z, (see Figs. 1 and 2,) which side bars may and preferably will be also secured to the end frames 0 (Z by suitable braces m. (See Fig. 3.) The auxiliary section may and preferably will be made as herein shown I and comprises a frame consisting of angleiron and bars a 0, connected by side bars or rods 9 g, which latter rods may be made of tubular metal and provided with upturned flattened endswhich are bolted or otherwise secured to the end bars a 0. The end bars at 0 support a wire mattress '1", connected thereto by springs s. The end bars a 0 are supported by and movable on guide bars or rods 6, located within the main section of the bed in proximity to the end frames thereof and below the horizontal portion 5 of the crossbars 9 by means of U-shaped brackets 7, the guide-bars 6 extending substantially the width of the main section of the bed. The auxiliary section b is movable on the guide-bars 6 from the position shown in Fig. 2 into substantially the position shown in'Figs. l and 4, and vice versa, and in its extended position (represented in-Figs. 1, 4c, and 5) the auxiliary section is supported at its outer end by suitable legs 8, attached to the end bars a 0 and connected thereto by braces 9, while the inner side of the auxiliary section is supported on the guidebars 6. The legs 8 may be connected to the side bar p by braces 4.

The movement of the auxiliary section with relation to the main section may and preferably will be accomplished by mechanism which I prefer to have operated by the foot of the person desiring to use the couch or bed,

and for this purpose the side bar q of the auxiliary section is provided near its opposite ends with depending loops or rings 10 12,

nections 22 23, which latter may be wire ropes, which are passed about horizontally-arranged pulleys 24 25, pivotally mounted in suitable brackets 26, attached to the under side of the side bars is Z, the flexible connections or cords 22 23 extending toward either endas, for instance, the foot of the main section of the bed-where they pass over verticallyarranged pulleys 30, which are pivoted to suitable brackets 31, (see Fig. 4,) attached to the legs 6 f of the end frame (Z, the said cords or flexible connections after passing over the pulleys 30 being attached to levers 32 33, pivoted, as at 34 35, to a U-shaped bracket 36, secured to the cross-bar g. The levers 32 33 may be made of metal strips or bars curled at their ends to form foot-rests 38 39, by which the mechanism for moving the auxiliary section with relation to the main section may be operated by the foot of a person.

As represented in Figs. 1, 4, and 5, the auxiliary section is shown in its extended position and the levers 13 14 occupy the position shown in Fig. 1.

If now it is desired to close the auxiliary section and to carry it into the position represented in Fig. 2, the operator depresses the lever 38, which draws upon the flexible connection or cord 22 and turns the levers 13 14 from the position shown in Fig. 1 into that shown in Fig. 2, the said levers through the loop connections 10 12 carrying with them the auxiliary section, the end bars no of which slide upon the guide bars or tracks 6. As the levers 13 14 are moved into the position represented in Fig. 2 the cord 23 is moved into the position represented in Fig. 2, thereby elevating the operating-lever 33 into the position represented by dotted lines in Fig. 4, in which position it is ready to be depressed and when depressed to draw upon the cord 23, and thus move the levers 13 14 into the position represented in Fig. 1, the said levers on their movement from the position shown in Fig. 2 to that shown in Fig. 1 carrying the auxiliary section I) outward into the position shown in Figs. 1 and 5.

The levers 13 14 are connected with the auxiliary section by a loose yet positive connection which permits of the quick and easy disengagement of the auxiliary section from the main section in case it is desired to use the auxiliary section separate from the main section. This disengagement may be effected by springing the levers 13 14 sufficiently to withdraw them from the rings or eyes 10 1.2, after which the auxiliary section is moved ofl of the tracks or bars 6, and the inner end may be then supported in any suitable manner.

I have herein shown one form of means for moving the auxiliary section with relation to the main section-mamely, from its closed to its open position, and vice versaand while I may desire to effect this operation by the foot of the operator, yet 1 do not desire to limit my invention to this particular manner or to the particular mechanism employed for effecting this movement.

- By reference to Fig. 4 it will be noticed that the upper surface of the auxiliary section is lower than the upper surface of the main section, and in practice the mattress, not shown, but which is used on the auxiliary section, is made of sufficient thickness to bring its upper surface on a level with the upper surface of the mattress used on the main section.

To provide against the mattress-supporting spring '1 of the auxiliary section catching or engaging with the mattress-supporting spring 0' of the main section when the auxiliary section is moved into its open or closed position, Ihave employed suitable means for preventing this engagement. The means preferred by me and herein shown consists of a curved or bow-shaped piece 50, of metal, extended transversely of the bed or couch and attached to the under side of the spring of the main section, as represented in Figs. 1, 6, and 7.

I claim- 1. In an article of the class described,in combination, a main section, an auxiliary section bodily movable laterally with relation to said main section, levers extended in opposite directions and pivoted to said main section intermediate their ends to move in a substantially horizontal plane and operatively engaged with said bodily-movable section near the opposite ends of the same, flexible means connected with the adjacent ends of said levers, and mechanism located at the end of the main section to which said flexible connections are joined, substantially as described.

2. In an article of the class described, in combination, a main section, an auxiliary section bodily movable laterally with relation to said main section, levers extended in opposite directions and pivoted to said main section intermediate their ends to move in a substantially horizontal plane and detachably connected at their outer ends with said auxiliary section near the opposite ends of the same, and means connected with. the inner ends of said levers for operating the same from an end of the main section to move said levers in opposite directions, substantially as described.

3. In an article of the class described, in combination, a main section, an auxiliary section bodily movable laterally with relation to said main section, levers extended in opposite directions and pivoted to said main section intermediate their ends to move in a substantially horizontal plane, and connected with said auxiliary section near its opposite ends to move the same in opposite directions, a device at the end of the main section for moving said levers in one direction, a second device at the end of the main section for moving saidlevers in the opposite direction, and flexible connections joining said devices to the inner ends of said levers, substantially as described.

4. In an article of the class described, in combination, a main section, an auxiliary section movable with relation to said main section, levers pivoted to the main section to move in a substantially horizontal plane and operatively engaged with the auxiliary section, levers pivoted to the main section to move in a substantially vertical plane and extended toward opposite sides of the main section, and flexible connections between said vertically-movable levers and said horizontally movable levers, substantially as described.

5. In an article of the class described, in combination, a main section provided with a mattress-supporting spring, an auxiliary section movable with relation to said main section and provided with amattress-supporting spring, and means carried by one of said mattress-supporting springs and interposed between it and the other of said mattress-supporting springs to prevent said springs from engaging with each other, substantially as described.

6. In an article of the class described, in

combination, a main section, an auxiliary section,bodily movable laterally with relation to said main section, levers pivoted to said main section and extended in the direction of the length of the same and connected to said auxiliary section, and flexible connections connected to opposite sides of said levers and extended transversely and longitudinally of said main section to operate, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE W. BENT.

Witnesses JAs. H. CHURCHILL, J. MURPHY. 

